WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Mark R. Warner issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON -U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA),ex officiomember of the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, released the following statement on today's board meeting:
"The John F. Kennedy Center has an important relationship with Congress; it was established by and receives vital funding to maintain the building from Congress.
"It is no surprise that the Center has its own challenges, but its leadership and the president should be working with Congress to address and remedy those problems. Instead, President Trump has turned a national monument into another one of his vanity projects.
"With the president's handpicked board voting to ...